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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Colorado Springs
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Gladys Bagg Taber
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April is a promise of what's to come.
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I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
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After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
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Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed it has its own spring.
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I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
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Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
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Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
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If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.
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November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
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Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
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Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.
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Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
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The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
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the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
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The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
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My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
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Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.
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